Thursday, October 4, 2012

Waiting…Thirteen Thoughts and an Update

Last month I participated in Deana Barnhart’s Gearing Up to Get an Agent Event. I was
lightning-strike, act-of-God lucky. The pitch for my novel Dark Bringer made it to the final Agent Pitch Contest and managed
to snag some requests.

Now, I’m waiting and hoping and thinking—wow, this process
is universal. We all are anticipating something: a birthday, a date, or a new
beginning.

You and I have experienced this before period time and time
again, so have most people. Well, what’s it like? What do the articulate, the
smart or the wise think of waiting? Here are 13 different takes.

Header by Samulli

“If
pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I
need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may
he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo
Coelho, By
the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Waiting
on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within
oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it
whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.”
― Elisabeth
Elliot

“Everything
comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.”
― Kin
Hubbard

And
here’s a fourteenth, just because I like Ray Bradbury. J
“He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been
there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited
there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a
shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume,
perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the
temperature rise at this one spot where a person's standing might raise
the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant. There was no
understanding it. Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white,
unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing
swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak.
But now, tonight, he slowed almost to a stop. His inner mind, reaching out
to turn the corner for him, had heard the faintest whisper. Breathing? Or
was the atmosphere compressed merely by someone standing very quietly
there, waiting?
He turned the corner.”
― Ray
Bradbury, Fahrenheit
451

Oh, I had a travel companion who was always late. It used to make me nuts...waiting and waiting. Finally we worked out a system where I'd give her 15-30 minutes. I'd read and if she showed great and if she didn't we'd meet later. It worked. :)

Great quotes. One of my favorite plays is "Waiting for Godot." I confess, though, that I tend to grow irritable when waiting for a chronically late friend--especially if it means getting to a ticketed event late.

First of all thanks for visiting my blog! We'd love to have you join us next week for Thursday's Children. Secondly - congrats on those requests! I've found that even if nothing comes of a request it's still validating to have been asked(at least it means your query's working!). If helpful criticism comes as a result of an agent reading your ms, even better. And obviously if an offer of representation comes you've hit the jackpot (I'm still waiting for that one).

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